Plan, direct, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications.

• Brewing Director
• General Superintendent, Milling
• General Supervisor
• General Supervisor
• Manager, Branch
• Manager, Dental Laboratory
• Manager, Food Processing Plant
• Production Superintendent
• Superintendent
• Superintendent, Car Construction
• Superintendent, Concrete-Mixing Plant
• Superintendent, Industries, Correctional Facility
• Wine Maker

• Coordinate and recommend procedures for facility and equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines.
• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems.
• Develop budgets and approve expenditures for supplies, materials, and human resources, ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.
• Direct and coordinate production, processing, distribution, and marketing activities of industrial organization.
• Hire, train, evaluate, and discharge staff, and resolve personnel grievances.
• Initiate and coordinate inventory and cost control programs.
• Institute employee suggestion or involvement programs.
• Maintain current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies.
• Negotiate materials prices with suppliers.
• Prepare and maintain production reports and personnel records.
• Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.
• Review plans and confer with research and support staff to develop new products and processes.
• Review processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
• Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality.

• analyze financial data
• analyze operational or management reports or records
• assign work to staff or employees
• communicate technical information
• compute product or materials test results
• conduct meetings with staff to ensure production objectives are met
• conduct or attend staff meetings
• conduct research on work-related topics
• coordinate production maintenance activities
• coordinate production materials, activities or processes
• design manufacturing processes or methods
• determine factors affecting production processes
• develop budgets
• develop maintenance schedules
• develop management control systems
• develop plans for programs or projects
• develop policies, procedures, methods, or standards
• develop staffing plan
• direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
• establish production schedule
• estimate time or cost for installation, repair, or construction projects
• evaluate manufacturing or processing systems
• follow manufacturing methods or techniques
• hire, discharge, transfer, or promote workers
• inspect or test materials to verify safety standards or ensure meeting of specifications
• maintain or repair industrial or related equipment/machinery
• maintain records, reports, or files
• maintain safe work environment
• make decisions
• manage industrial projects
• negotiate business contracts
• oversee execution of organizational or program policies
• perform safety inspections in industrial, manufacturing or repair setting
• perform safety inspections in manufacturing or industrial setting
• plan or organize work
• read technical drawings
• resolve personnel problems or grievances
• schedule work to meet deadlines
• supervise production workers
• supervise quality control workers
• understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
• use inventory control procedures
• use long or short term production planning techniques
• use negotiation techniques
• use oral or written communication techniques
• use technical information in manufacturing or industrial activities